The Cori cycle, named after its discoverers, Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori, is a metabolic pathway in which lactate, produced by anaerobic glycolysis in muscles, is transported to the liver and c
Carl Cori and Gerty Cori jointly won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen, of which the Cori cycle is a part.